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Croatian striker Mario Mandžukić is getting service in Munich, and is not disappointing his new team. The 26 year-old Mandžukić was bought by German giants Bayern Munich after a superb Euro 2012 campaign, where he scored three goals in three games this past summer. He hasn’t let off the gas yet.
On Tuesday night, against former club Wolfsburg, Mandžukić got the start and scored two second half goals to cap a 3-0 victory for Bayern. Mandza received two perfect crosses in the box and headed both past Wolfsburg keeper Diego Benaglio. The win keeps Bayern perfect to start the season and gives Mandžukić his fifth goal in as many games; good enough for the Bundesliga scoring lead this early in the season.
But how can Mandžukić keep this form up? Is it the service or is he quickly transforming into a killer striker?
Mandžukić was subbed out in the 79′ due to injury. Ivica Olić played the full 90 minutes for Wolfsburg, giving them their only shot on goal.
Mandžukić goals at 0:48, 0:20
In other news on the day, Ivan Perišić got the start for Borussia Dortmund and played 68 minutes in a 3-3 draw with Eintracht Frankfurt. Ivan Klasnić made his Mainz debut, coming off the bench in the 75′ in a 3-0 loss to Schalke. Nikica Jelavić came off the bench in the 65′ for Everton, during their 2-1 loss to Leeds United in the Capital One Cup.
LOL!
I gave you the recipe. Medical Cannabis a couple of 40’s of Old English and you’ll be alright…… Whatever you do stay away from mushrooms or dropping acid tabs cause you will hallucinate BLACK and you will literally shit yourself and go into cardiac arrest.
Elvis: “There are alot of tan colored Croats my friend who would not make the Aryan club.”
Elvis, just as there are different shades of Negros and different shades of Asians, so too there are different shades of Aryans.
@nije bitno, that’s sick dude. If a black guy married your cousin, that means that he prefers white woman over a woman who looks like the mulatto daughter said marriage would produce. The black guy would be destroying what he finds so beautiful – your white cousin.
I answered it. I said i wouldn’t care if she married a black catholic over a white Protestant just as long he isn’t the kind of black like you are white. Its not the color of the skin that makes me mad, sick or irritated its the attitude.
Those damn Tibetans and Aboriginals, how dare they fight against their own genocide by assimilation, they must have been into the “Tibetan and Aboriginal power scenes” respectively.
@nije bitno, you didn’t answer my question.
@Elvis, are you in the Dinaric Power scene? Why is ethnic-ism and national-ism A-okay, but race-ism is the worst thing in world? I’ve asked this question countless times, still nobody has answered – can you hear the silence?
So anybody who says white children have a right to have what ALL non-white children have – there own homogenous homelands is “into white power”? You’re seriously saying that?
Cute
We don’t threaten each other here understand Nije? HAET is a kid. A Croatian one I am not with him but I will defend him.
Lets not get “ghetto” now. We wouldn’t want you to bust out the jail house rock lol
Nije. you gonna make me?
Hey Elvis go back to Graceland and mind your business.
Haet is in the white power scene and is very High Strung. He needs a hug. Haet put down the Resistance Magazine. There are alot of tan colored Croats my friend who would not make the Aryan club. Thats ok with me. The Dinaric tribe is tan. Fight for Croatia!!
@Nije and Haet both of you need to calm down. We don’t threaten each other here or any where. Its low class and Ghetto.
@ @ Minister Farrakhan “the white version”
I don’t have to think about that. Shes marrying an Italian catholic my sister married a Croatian catholic those guys are A okay in my book. I have no problems with blacks just as long as they aren’t the kind of blacks as you are white.
@nije bitno, LOL!
Be real, you’d want your cousin to marry a black or mestizo catholic over a white protestant?
Yes, you’re right, my name calling was out of line. However, the world view I have that breaks the taboos of our established religion of political correctness is for EVERYBODY to read; it doesn’t require me to know anybody nor to say it to anybody’s face – although I most certainly would. Conversely, some people here have used the internet to attack me personally (despite the fact they don’t know me) b/c I’m a heretic to THE religion they adhere to and worship by far the most -Political Correctness; but they wouldn’t say those things to my face.
@ Minister Farrakhan “the white version”
I did not change my avatar for you my old avatar had my grb in it too. Just a nice pic of me and my cousin in lake havasu. If you want i can change my avatar to show you my other arm that has a huge pleterni kriz on it! No violence intended just wanted to see if you would say it to my face (highly doubtful). Yes I am a devoted catholic and so are Filipinos, Mexicans, blacks etc… Your one of those guys that got beat up for their lunch money in elementary school. I bet you run fast lol
@Dumbo, you’re a big Catholic? Was Jesus “annoyingly passionate about something”? Did the “opposite happen to him”? Was his “family and friends laughing at his ass until he was buried six feet under”?
Does your crystal ball tell you anything else about the future besides what’s going to happen to me?
@Dumbo, you changed your avatar just for me? You trying to prove something? You have a Giant Croatian tattoo on your arm, and you’re calling me “annoyingly passionate”? For me it has nothing to do with “passion”, it’s about survival. Yea, your post suggests you’re real devout Catholic, LOL! I here Rock Hudson used to “brag” a lot about the notches on his belt before he admitted to his double-life and died of AIDS. And before you start threatening violence on someone you don’t know – over the internet, remember it was you who started “talking shit” to me. Again, what I’ve said to you has everything to do with what you’ve said; conversely, what you’ve said to me has nothing to do with what I’ve said.
@ Minister Farrakhan “the white version”
I had all types of women and I’m still catholic and my kids will be catholic without a doubt! You know what happens to people like you? Usually when your so annoyingly passionate about something, the opposite happens to you! That being said, please be prepared to marry a latina, jew or women of color and watch your kids grow up nothing what you expected them to be and prepare to have all your family and friends laugh at your ass until you are buried 6 feet under.
As for the DUMBO comment, it’s easy to talk shit over the computer. I gave you a formal invite to say it to my face. Man up and come to Vegas!
@Denis, what’s your email? or if you have my dumby email address, just send it there. It’s going to take a bit of time as I have stacks of writings (including some notes on this subj) not organized – so I have to do some rummaging.
@HAET,
I wont tell you how many comments from others I have deleted in the past. We are not in grade school anymore. Waiting on your article. Lets see if you come through. Lets see if you trust me ::)
@Dumbo, the names I call you have everything to do with your comments. The things you say to me have nothing to do with my comments. Go get laid by a Jewess, and your Catholicism will fade away; and you won’t be so stressed so as to threaten physical violence on people.
@ HAET – Come to vegas for the serb match and talk ur shit to my face then we’ll see who DUMBO,STUPID and an EMBARRASSMENT is. Until then try a latina or some berries haha it will relieve you of your stress. If that dont work get your self some medical cannabis and a 40 oz of some old english and chill.
Denis: “3) People have complained about your comments and your comments only.”
That’s because I’m the only heretic to your established religion of Political Correctness. Face it, you conform to, adhere to, and worship Political Correctness much more devoutly than you do Catholicism
“5) Don’t follow the rules and we have problems with “edited (cut out) part of my post (6:10pm) without my permission.””
Bullshit, you do not apply “the rules” to others as you do to me. You NEVER erase “irrelevant comments” from others. And AGAIN, you erase my comments, but the responses to my erased comments.
@Dumbo, I ask what a Hispanic is and you respond by talking about berries? Are you legally a moron? Why don’t you go tell Hispanics who are celebrating “Hispanic Heritage Month”-“One Nation” to “go get laid by a non-hispanic woman and their ethnic thoughts will fade away”.
Why don’t you “get laid by a non-Croatian women and your national and ethnic thoughts will fade away”.
Your stupidity is an embarrassment to us all.
@Haet – it means go get laid by a women of color and your racial thoughts will fade away 😉
@Vlad
SOLD! I like your line up better, as it as been tough to see us not dictate our play through the midfield. I just see Jelavic and Mandza being a handful that stretches the D a bit.
@ Nije bitno
I like Vida’s motor too, but against Macedonija we need offense from the start as they are predictable and I do not want them getting confidence in Skopje with ball possession.
@Dennis
Suker could walk with the ball through defenses and his finishes were the stuff of legend. And I feel Mandza is little more than a “one trick pony.” Plus I see him getting better, similar to the way Olic got better in his later 20’s. Agreed, playing for Bayern as a striker is probably the easiest job to have to score, as even Gomez (a real one trick pony) scored bags of goals. A CONFIDENT Mandza could fire us into 2014.
Tell you one thing, if Mandza was playing for Belgium or Serbia we would be in deep sranje. That may say it all.
http://www.bundesliga.com/en/liga/news/2011/0000224082.php
“Mandzukic hails “perfect” service”
“I just told them where I like the ball to be delivered and they both did that perfectly. ”
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What does yer name mean ,HAET ?
@ The Golden Child Hvala for your post on why Croatia not being featured in FIFA 2013 is not a good thing. You took the words from my mouth.
@ Ziva You’re a dunce. I have about many non-Croatian friends from Peru to India and a few of them actually informed me of the fact that Cro was not in the new FIFA. Whether you believe it or not Croatia is an extremely likeable team and has many followers outside of “Hrvati”. If you play video games regardless of age of course you want to be able to use Mandzukic/Jelavic to pot some goals. If you like calling people “jock sniffers” hey that’s what you like, but many people like to battle against friends by playing soccer on a video game console.
HAET,
I apologize for not using CAPS, but I will not apologize for deleting half of your comment.
1) I dont need your permission to delete your comment.
2) The comment was irrelevant to the subject matter.
3) People have complained about your comments and your comments only.
4) Its up to you if you want to trust me or not. Goldenchild, Zach, Colin, King Bronk, Ante B, Brane, Rozalia, Valentina, Ana K, I know I am forgetting a bunch of others… have all trusted me and as of today, havent complained. You know the rules, luckily for you, we only have a couple rules. We dont ask for much.
5) You bring a lot to the table when its sports related. I have been on your side for a long time when so many people have asked me to ban you from the site. Again, stick to the rules, and you are a valuable part of this website. Don’t follow the rules and we have problems with “edited (cut out) part of my post (6:10pm) without my permission.”
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Denis, you edited (cut out) part of my post (6:10pm) without my permission, you constantly erase my comments but not the responses to my erased comments -You think that’s fair?. You never erase anti-white comments but are constantly erasing my pro-white comments. How do I know you won’t edit my article without my permission? Why would I trust you? Why would I want to make you money?
And one more thing, the name’s HAET, not Haet.
@HAET,
Yes, you are always welcome to contribute. As far as selling the article, we have never “sold” one article. We are here for the love of Croatia and the love of croatian sports. Now…. a little bit of $$$ wouldnt hurt. All of us here have jobs. If you want to make some $$$, find us some advertisers and we will shoot you a cut. Shoot me an email.
What is a HAET , wierd
@Denis, I have an idea for an article making a case for soccer as the best sport to watch and the best sport for kids and young adults to play – the case will be made by comparing soccer to other popular sports, taking into account many things from injuries to race. Can I just email you the article? Will you be able to sell the article to a big media outlet?
@goldenchild,
check
@Haet,
I never said Mandzo “sucks”. I just said that he’s not as good as some people make him out to be. Dude is amazing in the air and can score a hat trick in one game -or- he can look useless on the wing or useless in the mid without service in the air.
I will never throw my own under the bus. I was the first one that said, “give bilic time…. give bilic time…. then I was like… Bilic needs to go… Bilic needs to go… after Georgia and Greece results… then Bilic learned on the job and put on a memorable EURO performance.
Its pretty obvious that we have strikers that need help to be effective. Not since Eduardo in his prime(Euro 2008 qualifying) did we have a striker that is not a one trick pony.
Allen it’s Pajama time
If it wasn’t for Ziva, I don’t think I’ll ever see the term jock sniffer in my life.
Thanks Jack V . Puno Fala
Jarac te se funny . Now tell me the truth . Please
Resident of Zagreb.
hey what do u people think of this kid alen halilovic? he is 16 y/o dinamo player who will play for the Croatian national team even though his dad played for Bosna( and a game for Croatia?) (Not going to go into my personal opinion on him (alen) playing for us), but . apparently he is supposed to be amazing
http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/why-real-madrid-man-utd-and-man-city-are-so-desperate-prise-alen-halilovic-away-dinamo-zagr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bgFWnZpqO4&feature=g-all-u
if him and kovacic live up to expectation then the national team has a bright future
@ Anony
A purger is a burger with pooh in it, purger get it.
What is a purger????
@Denis, I guess you were one of the people who said Mandzukic wasn’t any good? I heard somebody say that the only thing Lewandowski does well is score goals, so does that mean all he gets is “15% tips”? There’s a huge difference btwn Messi and “sucks”, no? It never ceases to amaze me how people will throw their own kin under the bus before admitting that they were wrong.
matesic method like the line up but i just tweak it a bit
pletikosa
srna corluka lovern strinic
badelj radosevic
ilicevic Modric perisic
Mandzo
The thing with all these midfielders they all play better in a five man system rather than four. Having radosevic in their makes everyone’s job easier.
nije bitno: “@ HAET – you know what the say “the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice””
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What that has to do with my statement/questions that got erased.I’ll never know. Also, people aren’t fruits.
Yes, video games are huge. I’m well aware of the wanna be jock sniffers who waste their time with video games. But, kids around the world are not losing any sleep over not having Cro in the game. Cro being in it or not in it does nothing for exposure. The only people who will be complaining about no Cro in the game are hrvati who play the game.
I will disagree with on one thing….these video games do not help the kids understand more about the game. It actually hurts their knowledge of the game, mainly tactics. Only way you learn about the game is by playing on the field and not by eating chips while holding a controller in the hand.
@Denis
Add me to that list.
@Ziva
Video games are a thing of our culture these days. The reason that it’s bad for Croatia to be out of FIFA is exposure. For Croatia, you’re not only trying to go after the people that know about soccer, but you’re also trying to reach a demographic that doesn’t follow the sport religiously. So you have this kid, who may not be great at soccer or just likes to play FIFA, who picks Croatia at some point during his playing time. Let’s say he does well with that team, and plays with Croatia repeatedly. Through a video game, Croatia has now become HIS team. Because of that, the kid will look for anything and everything having to do with the team. This means:
1. Following the team and growing its fan base
2. Buying merchandise
The fact that the HNS hasn’t thought about this is crazy. They may not be getting sales directly from EA, but now they ‘re not getting anything.
The HNS is stupid for letting this happen. Sure Croatia is somewhat popular, but we’re not popular enough for Nike to sell jerseys in their US stores. Video games…as crazy as it may seem to you…consume a lot of kids lives these days. I think FIFA is the biggest sporting game purchased and it does nothing but promote the game and allow these kids to understand more about the game.
We’re basically losing money, losing fans, and weakening our teams reach to the rest of the world with this.
Whats up with Vegas boys(and possibly girls)!
Lets get a list of people that are at least 90% for sure:
We wont use real names for some people because they will have to get out of work and/or leave their wives for that weekend book club or religious tour.
1) Denis Svircic
2) Ante Kvartuc
3) Nije Bitno
4) Hvar Splican
5) Someguy “we”ll see”
6) Croatian Crippler
7) Ante B “If I dont go to Zagreb”
8)) Dukic
9) Jarac “If dukic is in, I’m in.”
10) Goldenchild
Feel free to add your name here…. and click on the Vegas box on the home page.
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@Matesic Method, HAET,
I agree with you that “we just need more from our wings.” Unfortunately, Mandza is almost nothing without his wings. For me Mandza is a one-trick poney that is strong in the box and hustles as much as Olic. Those are all good qualities. However, dude doesnt have a nose for the goal(besides in the air via a quality cross), dude can’t create on his own, and dude isnt much of a passer.
Davor Suker wasn’t a complete striker either. Dude needed service but dude had a nose for the goal and a golden left foot.
Mandza has the potential of being Davor Suker for Croatia if presented with the right service. However, he can also be a Peter Crouch, noneffective, if the right service isnt provided.
@Haet,
Just because you score doesn’t mean you dont suck. There are different levels of “suck”. Mandza could fall into that category if he doesnt receive the proper service. While players like Messi, Ribery, Robben, Higuain, etc etc can find a way on their own.
Most teams realize that to shut down Mandza, you push him to the wings and/or you deny him service from the wings. Also, let him dribble for days anywhere on the pitch. Simple strategy, but not so simple if the team has quality wings.
congrats to Mandza! Mario produced and did what he was paid to do. Basically, he did above the bare minimum to get a 15% tip at a restaurant. Now, if Mandza scored from outside the box, juked a defender and serviced another striker for an assist, then dude gets a 20-25% tip for going above and beyond.
Scoring two headers from 5 yards out doesnt get you in the hall of fame. Again, not hating on the guy, just quoting the Wolf from Pulp Fiction: “Lets not start sucking each others dicks quite yet.”
@Matesic – i would throw Vida in defensive midfield.. Nice lineup though.
@ HAET – you know what the say “the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice” 😉
He is MORE than a good header of the ball. He is a fully functional striker who attacks the box and scores the ball. I think he plays well off Jelavic, we just need more from our wings that will allow Modric to create.
Possible formation for Skopje:
Jelavic
Perisic Mandza Ilicevic
Modric
Badelj
Strinic Lovren Corluka Srna
Pletikosa
Thoughts?
Badelj had a REALLY good game for HSV, something like a 95% pass completion rate with an assist. Ilicevic was alright, didn’t play as well as this past weekend. Ivo was a little too selfish at times
Google translatation of ziva istina into english… “That’s the truth” well.. my croatian isn’t the greatest.. but wtf?
Badelj good game for HSV and ilicevic good game again against makedonija my midfield Ilicevic Badelj Modric Perisic.
@HAET
“Allen is pulling your chains.”
I am not so sure about that. He is going to come back and say that he was pulling our leg but I really don’t think so.
Using the same logic, when he called Pokrajac a clown he was being sarcastic?
@nije bitno
LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rijeka je ispala u Kupu od trećeligaša
HILARIOUS!
guess you are right….damn….we really do need that SARCASM sign on this site. Denis & Ante….look into getting one! haha
well stated allen! thought you’d gone over the edge there for a minute. sorry bud 🙂
everyone’s point remains…..athletes are idiots and can always be trusted to screw things up when they have fame and $$$$ (anyone been reading about vince young? damn, how do you let all that $$$$ slip through your fingers??)
Allen is pulling your chains.
@HAET…..don’t know if I’m in that group that said he sucked but I definitely didn’t see this run of play coming from him in May (both how he played at Euros and to start off the German season). Impressive! Let’s hope he keeps it up
@Allen…..i think that you need to read up on your American sports some more. Drinking in locker rooms and team planes happens ALL THE TIME!!….along with gambling and whatever else they do to break the monotony of constant travel. Not to mention the nights out and getting hammered the night before a game.
Like….in 1994 when I saw all the Croat National Team Basketball players in Toronto get wasted the night before their World Championship Semi-Final (which they choked on and lost to Russia). I saw with my own eyes and had friends witness the debauchery. If they had just gotten some sleep and ate some sarma instead, they would have beat Russia and played America for the gold in a Barcelona rematch.
American…..Croatian…whatever. Athletes behave badly! Goes hand in hand with cyclists who take drugs and Kardashians being annoying!
@Denis, can you make a list of all the posters who last year at this time were saying Mandzukic sucked? It’s in your archives, right?
Denis: “Nice to see Mandza scoring but all the credit goes to the service”
“I must say that if I had a cross coming in and had to pick one striker at the end of it, that striker would be super Mario.”
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If “all the credit goes to the service”, then what difference does it make which striker you’d “pick to be end on the end of it”?
And your comparison to Crouch is narrow minded: Crouch does have an unusually high skill level for such an abnormally tall soccer player; however, Mandzukic is much stronger and athletic. Mandzukic stands his ground and is as you say ‘A beast in the air’.
What is a Purger ?
watching these highlight, mandzukic just continues to be a terror with his head. i would never have thought it, but on these plays he almost looks physically dominant some like high flying dunker. i can only see the highlights so obviously i only see the good, but hopefully he keeps it up
@Allen Steven
American athletes are not idiots like Vida? That’s a good one!
What player helped kill someone and got away with it? – Ray Lewis
What player was the mastermind behind an illegal dog fighting ring and did serious jail time for that? – Michael Vick
What player accidentally shoots himself in the foot in a nightclub and does two years? – Plaxico Burress
What player has sex with an underage girl for money? Lawrence Taylor
What players do steroids and have their careers tainted? Mark McGuire, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Rafael Palmeiro, Jose Canseco, Alex Rodriquez, Roger Clemons, Carl Lewis and last but certainly not least Lance Armstrong who was stripped of his titles in 2012.
The list goes on and on and on and on……
You want to bet American athletes don’t drink? Ever been in a locker room after a game. Beer is common in locker rooms and team airplanes. They drink it on the team plane instead of the team bus. There are other issues here at play with Vida. Drinking on the team bus is not one of them.
Allen time to put on yer Pijamas and do a video or go to bed
The reason there hasn’t be a fine like that because American athletes aren’t idiots like Vida. What idiot drinks on the team bus? That shows how serious he is as a player and how much he cares. Just another goofball that I could care less about on the team. Ridiculous drinking on the bus, some kind of real player huh.
Vida’s fine………I doubt there was any fine. This is nothing more than Cacic trying to show his authority. It’s beyond stupid to fine or even call out a player for drinking a beer or glass of wine a full 24 hours before a game.
@DinmaoDennis……….I can see a kid being upset, but why would a grown adult male be upset about anything regarding a video game. For those that are hurt of not having Hrvatska in the game, I would suggest they purchase a ntional team jersey with the anme of a player on the back and then go into their backyard and juggle the ball to make themselves feel better.
@ Ziva
I dont play fifa but would undestand why people would be upset if Cro was not in it…. and how do you knwo the people complaining abotu this arent kids ?
Does anybody know how much the fine is exactly ? I have to know .
HNS-u za Wales predložili cijene ulaznica od 40 i 80 kuna
http://www.nogometni-magazin.com/newspro/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EFulyyppyugphHfjuk&tmpl=coranto_sp2014
yea seems a little aggressive
He isn’t being fined 100K. That is just the figure being thrown around.
100 thousand euros! that’s a huge fine. i can’t recall any athlete in american sports being given such a high fine. i don’t know how much vida makes, but i’m sure 100k euros is a noticeable chunk. more so than an nba player getting fined 25k
Ice loves Coco
again, any grown adult male complaining what is in or not in a video game needs help – and quickly. Play the video games all you want, you are entitled to that. But, to complain about a video game is comical. How about not buying it if you dont like it or agree with it.
And the reason Cro is not in it is because they did not sign the marketing agreement. Somehow, I don’t think there will be a worldwide outcry over the game because it doesn’t feature Croatia.
And please do explain to me why this is not a good thing for Croatian soccer. It’s a fricken video game. Last I checked the real games were actually played on the field.
He reminds me of big bird AKA Zlaten. Although he is nowhere near his striking ability. He just looks like him but with short hair. Anyhow, I am happy for him and I wish him all the success. He plays with heart and it shows with his performance. At times not pretty but so what. Go Go Marioooooo!!!!!!!
Barbic, doesnt suprise me that we have Suker as pres and now cro arnt in fifa, someones fuking around too much
Ziva Istina needs to get out of the village a bit more..
Nice to see Mandza scoring but all the credit goes to the service. Why cant Croatia offer service like this to our strikers? Especially, when you have a Peter Crouch type player like Mario Mandzukic on your team.
I must say that if I had a cross coming in and had to pick one striker at the end of it, that striker would be super Mario. Dude is a beast in the air.
Klasnic made his debut for Mainz off the bench today. I wonder if he has anything left in the tank.
Barbic I second that. Ziva is known to have inflammatory opinions on any number of topics on this site.
@Ziva some of us are married with kids and find it ridiculous that a video game that reaches tens of millions of households and features a host of national teams does not include Croatia, the 9th ranked country in the world. I could go on and on about why this is not a good thing for Croatian soccer but lets just say that. I’ll complain on behalf of my nephews who will wonder where the #%$! Croatia went in FIFA 2013 when they try to select them.
No clue who ziva istina is but he’s an idiot I like playing a soccer game waste my time a little and back to work what’s so bad about that ? I bet your a hundred yrs old ?
Renato it’s the same game still I will smash you drunk or sober
Is someone really bitching about a video game without Croatia in it…..get a life. Any grown adult complaining about a video game really needs to get a life. Just more prrof that some of you jock sniffers truly are jock sniffers if you need to play the role of a Croatian athlete in a video game.
Madza….great start to the season. I’m looking forward to what he does against top tier teams. That is where he will prove himself and show if he is close to being a world class forward.
Toni i think you are spot on.
Our defense has been our biggest issue over the past few years and with the potential of Lovran and Corluka as our key center backs we could have a settled and well organised team over the next few years.
Mandzukic has all the potential to be a world class player, Lets hope he can keep Gomez out of the team when he returns – the same as Olic did a few seasons back
Good to see Mandzukic getting goals for Bayern. He’s not transforming into a killer striker he is using his existing skill set to maximum effect. Mandzukic will never be a Torres (in his prime at Liverpool) or Drogba style striker. He doesn’t have great speed or top notch dribbling ability in and around the 18 but he has height and a tremendous awareness of his heading ability. He’s not afraid to attack the ball with his head unlike some primadonna strikers out there. There are so few players that can effectively defend against him in the air therefore I see him continuing to score and barring injury, finishing at or near the top of the Bundesliga scoring table. On the question of service of course that helps him as it does any player whose primary attack mode is a header. Still its his skill that is puttign the nice deliveries of the ball into the back of the net. Can’t tell you how many young players there are out there that can’t hit the broad side of a barn heading the ball.
Last year Bilic said Croatia would peak with this current generation at the 2014 World Cup and I agree with him. We have very strong attacking players, a deep and varied midfield, and we’re now developing are “D” line back to the standard of the Kovac/Simic/Simunic era.
Ha, Vida was named “stupidest footballer of all time” today. 100k is one expensive beer. hope it was good.
Blatter poručio Šukeru: Pomoći ćemo vam!
http://www.vecernji.hr/sport/vijesti/blatter-porucio-sukeru-pomoci-cemo-vam-clanak-457088
Vida fined 100,000 dollars for opening a beer on the Dinamo Zagreb bus – hahaha, fuckin Mamic is an extortionist now too.
I never lost at that game!
do a post about fifa13 not having croatia in it
Somewhere… Jersey Cro is rubbing himself to the news.
Mandzukic je super igrac srce i borben ali triba sve sanse zabiti ne zicere promasivati, idemo jos 2 tjedna i idemo na Vardar po 3 poda